The begining of the end

[infoxicated]

I'm noticing a pop-up message that happens for me on the old W3PA forums. It's telling me that the CSC account expires in 30 days from now.

After that is the point of no-return, basically. My apologies to anyone who paid some money into the community chest for the place - it looks like your money went to waste.

Unless of course anyone else wants to rescue the old forums from the tidal wave of adverts heading its way in a months time?

[Nick Burcombe]

I thought all these types of forums were free. How much do they charge you?
Nick

[infoxicated]

Over at EzBoard it was £30 every so often, but I already pay that every month for the server for the site. Seemed sensible to use the server for both the site and the forums and cut costs.

Economic downturn, you know - this site doesn't make a lot. (read "anything"!)

[vincoof]

Nick- yes the board is free. but if you don't give any buck you'll have a lot of adverts (ezboard uses the most popular and the most annoying ones : banners AND pop-ups).

[Wiseman]

...and pop-unders.

I hate those more than pop-ups, at least with a popup you can slam on the Alt+F4 keys, can't do that with a pop-under (since you'll just shut your browser window, and lose your page)